Life and times of an almost 3 year old

Here is Evan's car and plane collection which is currently his favorite toys. He plays with them at least once a day. Specific favorites are firetrucks/police cars/ambulances and monster trucks.

Our little dude makes us laugh almost every day. Here are some random things he's said or done that have entertained us:

Driving anywhere has the potential for emergency vehicle, train, garbage truck, airplane, or school bus sightings and Evan has an eagle eye for spotting them. It's like he has a sixth sense. UPS trucks are chocolate mail trucks, in case you weren't aware.

Not all words can be precisely enunciated so firetruck sounds like "siretruck", see you later sounds like "see you yater", and he likes seeing youtube videos on my "puter".

When we come inside and take off shoes, Evan lays completely down on the floor. Mommy laughs, he laughs, and now I'm sure he does it just for the reaction.

If you ask the young man what his name is, he'll tell you "Evan Jose Kafe".

One of our favorite books lately is "Poke ee no" aka Pinocchio. We've read it so many times that he points out the pictures that go along with the words.

Too much snow

With so much snow on the ground, we tried to have fun. It wasn't easy because the snow was deep and fluffy so little legs could not walk around in it. The sledding hill was much shorter than last year because the snow wouldn't pack down easily. In case you can't tell, he says he lost his bowling ball.

Surprisingly, a week after this outdoor fun, the snow was gone due to above freezing temps everyday.

Snowmageddon 2011

Snowmageddon, snowpocalypse, whatever you want to call it. I think the official total was 22 inches, they are calling it the 3rd most snowfall in Chicago history. Whatever it was, for us it was a real live snow day. The lights flickered twice so we got the flashlights and candles out. We hunkered down for the day and stayed in our pajamas until the afternoon.

This was after the initial removal was done and the blowing snow was over. We had only one lane for traffic on our street for 2 days while the plows did the major streets.

Look, it's a wall of snow! It looks so neat and pretty in the sun.

Even more singing

The floor sliding is another one of those things that just happened, we don't even know how. The ABC song completes our knowledge of songs at this point in our lives.

Multi syllable words

This was a Daddy invention and for some reason we both thought it was funny. Evan sometimes throws in his own words like "18 wheeler". Of course, that gets a laugh from Mommy and Daddy.

More singing

"Ipsy ipsy bider" was actually the first song he ever sang and he only knew the first 2 lines. Now we know the whole song.

A new development is that Evan will act out what he sees on tv. We saw part of the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy is locked in the castle and is rescued. Next thing you know we're taking turns "rescuing" each other from the castle (the playroom). An episode of the Backyardigans had a librarian go after an overdue book by becoming the Masked Retriever. Soon after, Evan was chasing me as the masked retriever as I ran away carrying a book.

Apparently Old MacDonald only had ducks

A little entertainment for the new year! In case you didn't know, Old MacDonald also doubles as the place where you get Big Macs and Happy Meals...